The company from Extremadura Imasde has designed and placed on the market “Ceres“, a portable, collaborative and easy-to-use robotic solution that offers the industry the possibility of automating the palletization of its à la carte products, since it allows any handling format to be registered.
The commercial director of this Emeritense firm, Carlos Perdigon, is very clear: “we have managed to do lto thermomix of robotics”, he assures in statements to Efe, since “any operator in a factory, without having any idea of technology, can configure and operate this machine at the end of the line by following the steps established by the control panel to place your products on a pallet for storage or transport.
Imasde, a company specialized in industrial robotics and automation of industrial processes, began working on this idea in 2019 when it was commissioned by a pharmaceutical company and decided to bet on the design of a collaborative machine that could be offered to other similar companies as a finished product. .
In the technological and market observatory phase, according to Perdigón, they verified that similar solutions already existed on the market to the first robot they proposed and they also detected that in all of them “there were still many important points that were not resolved”, which led them to to investigate and evolve until creating the definitive version of “Ceres”, with characteristics that “make it unique”.
In this sense, he explains that they have achieved that “something as technological as robotics, a machine that has a lot of technology” can be configured, started up and managed by any operator without any knowledge, just by following the instructions given in their control panel using totally intuitive software that has also been designed entirely by them.
Ceres is “fully transportable, without anchoring to the ground
“Ceres” is also portable, “totally transportable, since it does not have any type of anchorage to the ground nor does it need security fencing”, since, being a collaborative robot, it detects, with a series of scanners available, if someone it interferes with its trajectory and it starts to work slowly so as not to cause harm to any worker, which makes it “a 100% safe machine”.
In addition, Inmasde’s robotic solution “has no limitation to register any handling format” and can be configured to operate any type of container without having to call the manufacturer or pay any cost, says Perdigón.
Thus, “any operator can register new formats, both cubic and cylindrical, configure mosaics or define security perimeters” without having to depend on technical service.
The design consists of three versions, for different loads
The firm from Emeritus has created three versions of “Ceres” with a load capacity of up to 10, 20 and 30 kilos, respectively, to further adapt its “à la carte palletizer” to the specific needs of each company or industrial sector.
For the moment, Imasde has already presented its robotic solution at open conferences held in mid-April in Mérida and at others held in May in Catalonia, while preparing a distribution network, initially in Spain and Portugal, to market it.
This company from Extremadura already has a long history that has allowed it to fully automate factories, such as the bottling lines of Bodegas Orsborne, in Cádiz; or create systems to guarantee the traceability of fruit and ham.
In addition, Imasde has designed other very specific industrial prototypes, including a welding robot for the AVE catenaries, and a monitoring system for solar farms, which can also be transferred to wind farms and solar thermal energy installations, to guarantee its correct exploitation